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  • New Leadership Team elected for Access Agriculture

    Thursday, June 1, 2017 - 11:41

    Co-founder of Access Agriculture, Paul Van Mele has been voted in as Chair of the organisation for a further 3 years.  He will be supported by Vice-Chair, Mary Kamau, former director of Extension Services at Kenya’s Agriculture Ministry, and Treasurer, Alphan Njeru, a retired senior partner with PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers) Kenya.

    The international NGO has also seen a transition from founding Executive Secretary Bob Muchina to the new holder of the post, Nelson Ojijo who joined from FARA (Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa) in Accra, Ghana.

    The Board thanked...

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  • Bangladesh and Nepal go full swing on farmer training videos

    Friday, May 19, 2017 - 04:47

    From May 7th to May 19th Access Agriculture trained twelve people in the production of quality farmer-to-farmer training videos. Trainees were nominated by our respective partner organisations: Practical Action (Bangladesh and South Asia regional office in Nepal) and the Christian Commission for Development in Bangladesh (CCDB).

    This two-week intensive training was preceded by a video translation...

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  • 100,000 visitors to Access Agriculture website

    Wednesday, April 19, 2017 - 16:15

    In less than four years, Access Agriculture has reached the milestone of attracting over 100,000 visitors to its website.

    To quote Sean Granville-Ross, the Uganda Country Director from partner organisation Mercy Corps, “Access Agriculture has the best and largest online agriculture training video library that is in many languages.”

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  • Fairtrade Producer Networks join forces with Access Agriculture

    Monday, April 10, 2017 - 08:06

    More than one and a half million farmers that benefit from better market prices through the Fairtrade scheme may soon benefit from broader livelihood support. Through a strategic partnership, Access Agriculture and Fairtrade will jointly explore opportunities to strengthen the knowledge and livelihood options of Fairtrade producers and workers.

    Fairtrade is a global movement that addresses the injustices of conventional trade. The...

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  • Let’s Celebrate International Mother Language Day

    Tuesday, April 4, 2017 - 05:39

    If you haven’t heard of it – you should be aware that this year the theme for UNESCO’s International Mother Language Day is “Towards Sustainable Futures through Multilingual Education”… so international “Farmer to Farmer” agricultural video organisation, Access Agriculture, is doing its bit to mark the day. The Nairobi-based organisation already has 75 languages represented on its website www.accessagriculture.org.

    The ability to have quality agricultural training videos in the local...

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  • Iranian students triumph on Access Agriculture website

    Monday, January 30, 2017 - 09:30

    7 PhD students from the Agricultural Education Department at Razi University in Iran have recently translated and voiced seven videos from the Access Agriculture website as part of their studies.

    Professor Kiumars Zarafshani from the Agricultural Education Department who oversaw their work said that doing the translations helped the students with their English, and even despite not having any experience in video production they also learnt a lot about how a video is produced.

    Josephine Rodgers from Access Agriculture helped provide some guidance and advice on...

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  • Access Agriculture’s new Executive Secretary takes office

    Thursday, January 12, 2017 - 12:31

    Dr Nelson K. Ojijo Olang’o, a Kenyan national, has taken up his post as the new Executive Secretary of Access Agriculture.

    Before joining Access Agriculture, for 8 years Dr Nelson Ojijo worked as Lead Specialist, Capacity Development, at the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), Accra, Ghana. He is no stranger to the CGIAR, private sector, agricultural universities, NGOs and farmer organisations. As a team player and networker, Dr Ojijo brings with him a...

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  • Access Agriculture wins International Award for Innovation

    Monday, October 17, 2016 - 05:03

    Nairobi based Access Agriculture has won GOLD in the Innovation category of the EVCOM Clarion Awards at an International Award Ceremony in London. The Access Agriculture website which features “farmer to farmer” videos in local languages was singled out for the imaginative way in which videos of value can be accessed by the target audience either directly or through extension staff.

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  • Successful Video Training Workshops in South Asia

    Wednesday, October 5, 2016 - 13:18

    From September 25th to October 8th twelve people were trained in the production of quality farmer-to-farmer training videos. Trainees were nominated through their respective partner organisations: Agriculture Information Services (AIS) in Bangladesh, Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR) and MS Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) in India.

    This two-week intensive training from Access...

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  • New Access Agriculture website launched

    Monday, August 1, 2016 - 16:58

    Based on user feedback, Access Agriculture revamped its website. A major change is that all the videos are now also freely downloadable in 3GP format for mobile phone viewing.

    One page, farmer-friendly fact sheets accompany each video and provide contact details of the subject matter specialist involved in the production of that particular video.

    We also created a new section with other resources that relate to video...

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